Potato-chip cutter.



E. BRADLEY POTATO CHIP CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.I5, 1914.

1 148,,7%?B Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

E. BaAoL sY awMZ EMMA BRADLEY, or PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

POTATO-CHIP CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

Application filed August 15, 1914. Serial No. 856,920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMA BRADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residingat Paw Paw, in the county of Van Buren and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Potato- Chip Cutters, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in vegetable slicers, and an object thereof is the provision of a device of this character by means of which the vegetable may be completely out into slices, by a continuous rotation of a crank connected to one end of a rod, upon the opposite end of which a member is mounted to carry a vegetable and rotate the same against the slicing knife.

A further object of this invention is the provision of a vegetable slicer which will be simple in construction, whereby the same may be cheaply manufactured, and which will be extremely efiicient and durable in use.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevational view of my device; Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the knife plate showing the knife blade connected thereto; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 38 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the base plate of my improved slicer, which is provided on its under face at one end with a clamping arm 2 through the lower horizontally disposed end of which a set screw 3 is disposed, whereby the plate may be secured in posiiflion upon the side of a table, shelf, or the Formed on one end of the base plate is an upstanding shoulder 41: upon the upper face of which a pair of spaced threaded bearings 5 are formed and threadably disposed through the bearings is a rod 6 which 1s provided on its outer end with a crank handle 7 by means of which the rod may be turned to advance or retract the same through the bearings.

Formed on the inner end of the rod 6 is an enlarged head 8, which is provided with a plurahty of longitudinally extending prongs 9, and connected to the opposite end of the plate 1 is a knife plate 10, against which the head 8 is adapted to force the vegetable to be sliced.

The knife plate is formed with a slot 11 in its lower end, through which a set screw 12 is adapted to project for engagement in a threaded opening in the end of the plate 1, the head of the screw 12 tightly engaging the outer face of the knife plate to hold the same in engagement with the base plate.

Extending laterally from the plate 10 intermediate of its ends is a sharpened pin 13, which is disposed in horizontal alinement with the rod 6, and formed in the plate 10 below the pin is a vertically disposed slot 14 through which the cutting edge of a knife blade 15 is adapted to project. The outer face of the plate 10 at one side of the slot 14 is beveled, and the blade 15 engages against the beveled portion of the plate, the blade having an inwardly extending slot 16 formed in its outer side edge, through which a set screw 17 projects for engagement in a threaded opening in the plate 10, whereby the blade may be held in such position that the cutting edge thereof projects the desired distance inwardly of the slot 13, to cut slices of the desired thickness.

Formed on the outer face of the plate 10 outwardly of the slot 14 is a shield 18 which is adapted to protect the knife blade, and to guide the slices downwardly into any suitable receptacle provided therefor.

The operation of my improved vegetable slicer is as follows: The crank 7 is rotated to retract the rod 6 a suitable distance, so that the head 8 is spaced from the extremity of the pin 13 to allow the vegetable to be forced upon the pin, whereby the crank is rotated to move the rod inwardly so that the prongs 9 of the head will engage in the vegetable, whereby upon a continuous turning of the crank, the vegetable is also turned and forced against the inner face of the knife plate so as to be engaged by the projecting cutting edge of the blade. It will be readily seen that upon a continued rotation of the crank, the vegetable is turned so that slices are cut therefrom by the knife blade, and at the same time the object is continually forced inwardly against the inner face of the knife plate, so that the object may be entirely cut into slices before the rod is again retracted so that the pin 13 may re ceive another vegetable. As the pin 13 is disposed directly above the upper edge of the slot, the vegetable may be entirely out into slices, Without leaving a central core upon the pin. From the above description taken in connection With the accompanying drawing, it Will be seen that I have provided a vegetable slicer, which may be quickly set 'up in a position for use, and the parts of which may be quickly detached from each other to reduce the size of the device When it is desired to ship or store the same in a small space.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is ,A vegetable cutter including a plate provided with an elongated slot, a marginal portion of the plate at one side of the slot being inclined transversely, a knife adapted to be clamped to the inclined face of the plate and to project through the slot therein, and an outwardly disposed shield integrally formed With the opposite marginal portion of the plate and overlying the slot thereof.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

Witnesses:

M; M. SoU'rHWoRTH, WM. KILLEFER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

EMMA BRADLEY. a 

